IP: *** Bluetooth demo flops at tech show: InfoBeat News - Morning Coffee Edition - 3/26/2001

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>HANOVER, Germany (AP) - It was meant as a crowning moment for a
>long-promised technology designed to create a wireless link among
>different devices around the home or office. But instead, the
>"Bluetooth" demonstration at the world's biggest computer and
>electronics show turned into an embarrassing flop when 100
>transmitters equipped with the short-range radio technology failed
>to transform a convention hall into a wireless data network for
>visitors with palmtop computers. The ill-fated bid to create the
>world's biggest Bluetooth network at this year's CeBIT trade fair
>underscored the many obstacles that still plague the two-year-old
>technology. Bluetooth is seriously hobbled by a lack of standardized
>code, which means that devices of different brands often can't
>communicate with each other - a big flaw for a technology hailed as
>the next step in computer interconnectivity.
>
>Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406519811



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